HULKS SCRAPPED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 133, 7 June 1937, Page 8

HULKS SCRAPPED.

FRANK GUY SOLD. WAS SMART SAILER. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. With the increase in the use of oil fuel for the propelling of shipping, both overseas and coastal, the fleet of coal hulks at Lyttelton is rapidly .disappearing. A few weeks ago the Canterbury Steam Ship Company sold the Raupo for scrap iron, and since then the Westport Coal Company has sold the Frank Guy, well known at Lyttelton for the past 30 years. There now remains but two coal hulks in the port, the Helen Denny, owned by the Union Steam Ship Company, and the Darra, belonging to the Westport Coal Company. The Frank Guy was built at Bateman'g Bay, New South Wales, in 1875, and in her heyday wag credited with being a smart little sailer. She was of 211 tons gross and schooner rigged. Lster in her career she was converted to ;barquentine rig. Her hull was built of Australian hardwood, and her deck of kauri. For some years she was employed in the sugar trade sailingtout of Mauritius. At still a later date she was employed in the Clarence River and New Zealand timber trade. The vessel was eventually purchased by the Westport Coal Company, and under Captain J. K. Mitchell, who was previously an officer on the Canopus, was engaged in trading between Gisborne and Lyttelton until 30 years ago, when the firm converted her into a hulk.